Cross posted from Rational Resistance.
However, a week after the announcement of this historic reversal, the DEA still hadn’t removed mention of the AMA’s old, anti-medical-marijuana position from its website.
So, the advocacy group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), an organization of cops, judges and prosecutors calling for the legalization and regulation of all drugs, created an action alert asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to order the DEA to scrub the bogus statements from the web.
After just one day of emails from activists, the information disappeared.
Now, if we could only get them to delete the more fundamental lies about marijuana, like it's dangerous, it's addictive, it kills you, it causes you to use other drugs . . .
We've covered this issue here before. Vermont's been in the vanguard on other issues, this seems like a pretty logical one. There are three bills in the Legislature relating to marijuana. It might be a good idea to contact your senators and representatives and tell them you'd like to see action on these bills.